Post by account_disabled on Mar 6, 2024 0:36:24 GMT -6
In your delicious bowl of cereal or in your Chile Mobile Number List coffee, perhaps in a quesadilla or in that pasta full of cheese... dairy products are present, as well as in most foods.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) points out that there are more than 6 billion people in the world who consume milk and dairy products, most of them live in developing countries.
All these products come from the cow, an animal of great importance in New Zealand, a country where there is a new tax. Because? Let's see.
What's behind your glass of milk
According to the FAO , cattle are the largest producer of GHG emissions with around 5.0 gigatonnes of CO2-eq, equivalent to 62% of all emissions.
Beef cattle and dairy cattle generate similar amounts of GHGs. Pigs, poultry, buffalo and small ruminants have lower emission levels, forming between 7% and 11% of total emissions. Check out the following infographic!
FAO
Milk and beef have positioned themselves as two of the products that generate the most emissions. The FAO points out that they produce about 3.0 and 1.6 gigatonnes of CO2-eq, respectively.
After these two products, they are followed by:
Pork (0.82 gigatons of CO2-eq).
Chicken meat and eggs (0.79 gigatons of CO2-eq).
Buffalo meat and milk (0.7 gigatonnes of CO2-eq).
Meat and milk from small ruminants (0.5 gigatonnes of CO2-eq).
The rest of the emissions correspond to other poultry and non-edible products.
FAO
Furthermore, emissions from the livestock sector are generated mainly in four processes:
Enteric fermentation.
Manure management.
Feed production.
Energy consumption.
This amount of emissions and all the impact generated by the food industry and agriculture, as well as the number of cows residing in New Zealand, have encouraged the government to impose a new tax.
Is there an ox? tax!
The main purpose of this new tax is to help New Zealand mitigate the effects of global warming and address the impact generated by agriculture and livestock . Furthermore, with this decision, New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to put a price on the emissions that come from the production of foods such as meat, milk and dairy products.
Alexander Eden, chief analyst at ICAP, points out that this tax will allow the development of an emissions trading system that is intended to come into action in 2025, and to achieve this, the Ministry of Climate Change led by Minister James Shaw, reached a agreement with the farmers to find solutions to an issue that is not easy to resolve.
Within this purpose, the challenge of reducing methane emissions generated by the stomachs of ruminants, which represent about 35% of the country's greenhouse gases, will also be addressed.
However, within this entire process, we will seek to protect and care for these species since they are very valuable to the country's economy, so the government, those involved, and the farmers have given themselves until 2022 to develop and promote a control system. of farm emissions.
And it will be the farmers themselves who will evaluate how they can reduce emissions in their activity:
If this did not work, since there are thousands of farms, they would move on to plan B, which consists of the processing factories that buy the raw materials from them setting a price based on the emissions of their products. We are talking about 100 companies, it is much more feasible.
Alexander Eden.
Regarding nitrous oxide, Eden pointed out that to address 22% of agricultural emissions in New Zealand, the solution is simpler because the law provides for the purchase and use of fertilizers to be penalized but…
Does it threaten the market?
While farmers share the idea that it is essential to address emissions generated by cows, food production and agriculture-related activities, the tax could pose a threat to the market and consumption.
According to farmers, the tax can generate the loss of competitiveness that this CO2 price entails for them, since the majority of their production is exported, and thus they compete with countries where this extra cost does not exist.
Although to prevent this imbalance, the state will assume 95% in the first stage, for analyst Eden, the step taken and the decision New Zealand made is a matter for the future:
The country is assuming that it is not about having more products, but about them being of better quality, and that means fewer emissions.
Alexander Eden, Eden analyst.
Perhaps this challenge can be added to other parts of the world, since the food industry generates a worrying environmental impact, in addition to the fact that its consumption of resources also affects future generations.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) points out that there are more than 6 billion people in the world who consume milk and dairy products, most of them live in developing countries.
All these products come from the cow, an animal of great importance in New Zealand, a country where there is a new tax. Because? Let's see.
What's behind your glass of milk
According to the FAO , cattle are the largest producer of GHG emissions with around 5.0 gigatonnes of CO2-eq, equivalent to 62% of all emissions.
Beef cattle and dairy cattle generate similar amounts of GHGs. Pigs, poultry, buffalo and small ruminants have lower emission levels, forming between 7% and 11% of total emissions. Check out the following infographic!
FAO
Milk and beef have positioned themselves as two of the products that generate the most emissions. The FAO points out that they produce about 3.0 and 1.6 gigatonnes of CO2-eq, respectively.
After these two products, they are followed by:
Pork (0.82 gigatons of CO2-eq).
Chicken meat and eggs (0.79 gigatons of CO2-eq).
Buffalo meat and milk (0.7 gigatonnes of CO2-eq).
Meat and milk from small ruminants (0.5 gigatonnes of CO2-eq).
The rest of the emissions correspond to other poultry and non-edible products.
FAO
Furthermore, emissions from the livestock sector are generated mainly in four processes:
Enteric fermentation.
Manure management.
Feed production.
Energy consumption.
This amount of emissions and all the impact generated by the food industry and agriculture, as well as the number of cows residing in New Zealand, have encouraged the government to impose a new tax.
Is there an ox? tax!
The main purpose of this new tax is to help New Zealand mitigate the effects of global warming and address the impact generated by agriculture and livestock . Furthermore, with this decision, New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to put a price on the emissions that come from the production of foods such as meat, milk and dairy products.
Alexander Eden, chief analyst at ICAP, points out that this tax will allow the development of an emissions trading system that is intended to come into action in 2025, and to achieve this, the Ministry of Climate Change led by Minister James Shaw, reached a agreement with the farmers to find solutions to an issue that is not easy to resolve.
Within this purpose, the challenge of reducing methane emissions generated by the stomachs of ruminants, which represent about 35% of the country's greenhouse gases, will also be addressed.
However, within this entire process, we will seek to protect and care for these species since they are very valuable to the country's economy, so the government, those involved, and the farmers have given themselves until 2022 to develop and promote a control system. of farm emissions.
And it will be the farmers themselves who will evaluate how they can reduce emissions in their activity:
If this did not work, since there are thousands of farms, they would move on to plan B, which consists of the processing factories that buy the raw materials from them setting a price based on the emissions of their products. We are talking about 100 companies, it is much more feasible.
Alexander Eden.
Regarding nitrous oxide, Eden pointed out that to address 22% of agricultural emissions in New Zealand, the solution is simpler because the law provides for the purchase and use of fertilizers to be penalized but…
Does it threaten the market?
While farmers share the idea that it is essential to address emissions generated by cows, food production and agriculture-related activities, the tax could pose a threat to the market and consumption.
According to farmers, the tax can generate the loss of competitiveness that this CO2 price entails for them, since the majority of their production is exported, and thus they compete with countries where this extra cost does not exist.
Although to prevent this imbalance, the state will assume 95% in the first stage, for analyst Eden, the step taken and the decision New Zealand made is a matter for the future:
The country is assuming that it is not about having more products, but about them being of better quality, and that means fewer emissions.
Alexander Eden, Eden analyst.
Perhaps this challenge can be added to other parts of the world, since the food industry generates a worrying environmental impact, in addition to the fact that its consumption of resources also affects future generations.